Western
Canadian Studies Conference 2008 - Presentations
NiCHE has archived 17 audio presentations
from this event
The Western Canadian Studies Conference inaugurated
a new version of the Western Canadian Studies conferences, which in the 1970s
and 1980s helped generate energy and vitality in the field through bi-annual
rendezvous.
Citation: Piper, Liza. "Resource Frontiers in the Northwest: Who Was
Doing the Settling?" Western Canadian Studies Conference. Edmonton, AB. 20
June 2008.
Bio: Liza Piper is an associate professor in History at the University
of Alberta. She is also an executive member of NiCHE and the leader of the
Early Canadian and Environmental Data project.
Abstract: This talk examines the central role played by resource
exploitation in the political economy of the Canadian Northwest in the late
nineteenth and twentieth centuries in contrast to the role played by
agricultural settlement. The new resource geographies that emerged embraced
property regimes and economic relationships that encouraged the sedentarization
of aboriginal peoples at the same time that they depended upon a transient,
predominantly non-Native population for labour. This led to the segregation of
native/non-industrial and non-native/industrial communities and the mis-representation
of the former as embodying archaic relationships and a decaying social fabric
and the latter as epitomizing the ephemeral dynamism of Canada in the modern
age.
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